Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Council Workers
Derby TAs go on all out strike over 25% pay cut
Film length: 14:09 Teaching assistants in Derby have taken the very brave step of going on all out strike to try and get the Labour council to talk to them and come up with a […]
Transport
BA Strike Ballot: Cabin Crew vow to fight on “well into the summer”
Film length: 5:57 British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are determined to continue strike action “well into the summer” if their demands for a living wage are not met. The crew’s mandate for strike action […]
Construction/Blacklisting
Fawley oil refinery strike: Exxon Mobil send in police to harass workers
Running Time: 6 min 33 secs Extraordinary scenes this week at Fawley Oil Refinery in Hampshire, where Exxon Mobil sent in scores of police to harass and intimidate striking workers, rather than talk to them. […]